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Tuesday, April 3, 2007

“Acting Black” = Underachievement

By Tariq Nelson

"I feel that understanding this attitude is important because many of them bring this same attitude into Islam and dress it with righteous vocabulary. If a black child is asking another one 'why aren’t you acting black?' it is the same as asking 'why aren’t you underachieving and acting ignorant?' An entire culture of underachievement has been formed. Laziness becomes 'zuhud.' Not having a job becomes 'sacrifice.'

"However, the article below states that even white kids are asking this question now of black children…They expect them to act like the one black, fast talking, underachieveing street-wise character who 'acts black' (the polar opposite of the Magic Negro) in those movies that otherwise have a cast of straight laced white people."

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Booker T. Washington said:

"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."